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Dancing On Wheels: the judges

l-r: Ade Adepitan, Ola Jordan and James Jordan

The competitors will battle it out each week in front of a panel of three judges: Strictly Come Dancing's reigning professional champion Ola Jordan; also from Strictly, James Jordan; and paralympic athlete Ade Adepitan.

It's down to the judges alone to decide which couple should leave the competition each week and which will, ultimately, go on to represent Britain in the Wheelchair Dance Sport European Championships in Israel.

Married couple James and Ola Jordan are both professional dancers on ´óÏó´«Ã½ One's Strictly Come Dancing. Ola won the competition in 2009, dancing with ´óÏó´«Ã½ sports presenter Chris Hollings.

James and Ola are among the best in the world at competitive Latin American Dancing and are Latin American Closed British finalists, UK Open Rising Star Professional Latin American finalists and British Open Rising Star Latin American runners-up. They were ranked in the top 12 in the world at the International Professional Latin American Championships, which were held at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Television presenter and wheelchair basketball player Ade Adepitan is also on the judging panel. He was a ´óÏó´«Ã½ commentator for wheelchair basketball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing and has reported for Sportsround and the travel show, Holiday. He also appeared on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ One "Hip-Hop" ident as the lead dancer.

Ade was a member of the Great Britain team that won the Bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens and the Gold medal at the 2005 Paralympic World Cup in Manchester. In 2005 Ade was made a MBE for services to disability sport.

Ade is currently in training with a view to competing in the 2012 London Olympics in tennis.

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